Description of problem: octive.GeographicLib had a preun problem which may be the reason there are duplicate packages in this system now. package-cleanup --cleandupes threw a traceback (see below) but it suggested using dnf so I tried "dnf remove --duplicates" which also failed (see below) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dnf-2.5.1-1.fc27.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.see below 2. 3. Actual results: see below Expected results: correct package removal Additional info: First failure (non dnf): Yum-utils package has been deprecated, use dnf instead. See 'man yum2dnf' for more information. Loaded plugins: product-id --> Running transaction check ---> Package octave-GeographicLib.noarch 0:1.48-1.fc27 will be erased --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ======================================================================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ======================================================================================================================================= Removing: octave-GeographicLib noarch 1.48-1.fc27 installed 182 k Transaction Summary ======================================================================================================================================= Remove 1 Package Installed size: 182 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading packages: Running transaction check Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded Running transaction (shutdown inhibited) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/bin/package-cleanup", line 402, in <module> util = PackageCleanup() File "/bin/package-cleanup", line 61, in __init__ self.main() File "/bin/package-cleanup", line 396, in main sys.exit(self.doUtilTransaction()) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/utils.py", line 420, in doUtilTransaction return_code = self.doTransaction() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 799, in doTransaction resultobject = self.runTransaction(cb=cb) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1747, in runTransaction if self.fssnap.available and ((self.conf.fssnap_automatic_pre or File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1142, in <lambda> fssnap = property(fget=lambda self: self._getFSsnap(), File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1078, in _getFSsnap devices=devices) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/fssnapshots.py", line 158, in __init__ self._vgnames = _list_vg_names() if self.available else [] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/fssnapshots.py", line 56, in _list_vg_names names = lvm.listVgNames() lvm.LibLVMError: (0, '') Second failure, dnf: dnf remove --duplicates Dependencies resolved. ======================================================================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ======================================================================================================================================= Removing: octave-GeographicLib noarch 1.48-1.fc27 @_dnf_local 182 k Transaction Summary ======================================================================================================================================= Remove 1 Package Freed space: 182 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction Preparing : 1/1 Running scriptlet: octave-GeographicLib-1.48-1.fc27.noarch 1/1 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.1EpBuP: line 7: /usr/share/octave/packages/%{octpkg}-1.48/packinfo/on_uninstall.m: No such file or directory error: %preun(octave-GeographicLib-1.48-1.fc27.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 Error in PREUN scriptlet in rpm package octave-GeographicLib Error in PREUN scriptlet in rpm package octave-GeographicLib octave-GeographicLib-1.48-1.fc27.noarch was supposed to be removed but is not! Verifying : octave-GeographicLib-1.48-1.fc27.noarch 1/1 Failed: octave-GeographicLib.noarch 1.48-1.fc27 Error: Transaction failed rpm -qa | grep octave-geographiclib octave-GeographicLib-1.48-1.fc27.noarch octave-GeographicLib-1.48-1.fc27.noarch rpm --nodeps --noscripts -e octave-GeographicLib also fails... complaining about duplicates. --justdb also fails with the same complaint.
This is something that can't be fixed in DNF or RPM. It's more a packaging problem - the scriptlet is failing. You can probably remove it by hand by running rpm -e --noscripts <rpm>
Daniel, NONE of your suggested fixes have worked. I have even tried rebuilding the rpmdb without success. Something in "rpm land" is in error. I just don't know enough about rpm to figure out what that is. Maybe physically removing all "evidence" of this duplicate rpm and then rebuilding the rpm db? Of course, the package was in error. I bet that if I were a paying customer, you guys could find a fix for me. If you want to close this bug you should change it to cantfix. George...